You get 21Scrum! Andrew Woodward (@andrewwoody) has been working hard at getting his passion for process and development into a solution that drives the principles of Scrum. He and Sam Dolan (@pinkpetrol) have worked on a look that is functional and appealing. Good job, Andrew! 21Scrum is now live! Go check it out … http://www.21scrum.com Give the Tour section a go. Explore and enjoy ......

My reading focuses very much around the technologies I work with. During TechEd 2010 North America I found some very good reads that are helping me prep for the new things out and also to establish recommended practices in their implementation. Here are the titles. It looks like a spot for Wrox, but they have hit hard and early with great content, and some friends happen to have participated in their creation ......

SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer is a diagnostic tool that gathers information about the server and the SQL Server instances installed (2008 and 2008 R2). It checks for configuration settings following recommended best practices and reports on configuration settings that deviate from those recommendations. Download: http://www.microsoft.com/do... ......

Philip Newman and Christopher Brotsos from the InfoPath program management team show how you can use Team Foundation Server (TFS) to manage source control for your InfoPath forms with code. Great piece of information … http://blogs.msdn.com/b/inf... ......

A couple of months ago I was having a conversation about which tools people were using to manage theirs development projects, aside from TFS. Most of the answer had just the standard TFS tools, some other had been custom developed and some mentioned running a very early beta of TeamPulse. What caught my interest on this tool is the fact it is a Silverlight 4 app, therefore the richness of the interface, not only in look and feel, but in value and functionality. Give it a try by visiting the website ......

EMC provides us with 2 great tools, I have talked about the experience of deploying Scrum for Team System Template Version 3. Now they have released the Scrum Master’s Workbench. What is this tool about? Many times it is challenging for a Scrum Master to keep tabs on the items going on when there are many places to look. This tool allows for us to connect to any Team Foundation Server project and interact with the work items using task board, item list and control project iteration path information. ......

Updated image available for Demo and Evaluation of Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Project 2010 and integration with Exchange 2010 and Office Communicator 2007. There is the traditional download available from the Download Center. http://www.microsoft.com/do... We also have the option of working with the Microsoft Download Service (Akamai Download Manager). Virtual Machine 2010-7a parts 1-12 Virtual Machine 2010-7a parts ......

I am completing a couple of days at TechEd NA 2010 in New Orleans this week. There were many interesting finds, discoveries, re-syncs and so on. But the following book is an outstanding find. I have the hard copy of it, but found out too there is a pdf version of the document. Here is the link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... ......

There is a set of Pro Power Tools released yesterday for Visual Studio 2010. Check them out here. Brian Harry did a feature summary description on his blog. Check it out here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bha... ......

You are the administrator (or since you may be the one that knows the most about it) and you need to do some cleanup on what is connected and perhaps even cleanup after people that have left the organization and left some code checked out in their workspace. What permissions do I need? You will need to have Administer Workspaces permission to perform the following tasks. The commands. In order to execute the commands, you will need to open a Visual Studio Command Prompt, once there you will be able ......

The problem? Performing a build on a ClickOnce solution would not be successful due to the setup.bin not being located. Ok, now what? Researched from corner to corner, install, re-install, update. Found some interesting posts to fix the issue, but most of them were focused on Team Foundation Server/Team Build 2008, and some other on 2005. The other interesting tidbit was the frequent indication to modify the registry to help Team Build find the bootstrapper. Background info: This was a migration ......